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Gigi Sohn and Alvaro Bedoya would give the Democrats majorities on the FCC and FTC respectively.

According to Free Press Action, those calling for Sohn’s swift confirmation include leading civil-rights, community-media, media-justice, workers-rights and consumer-advocacy groups.

A federal appeals court rejected an attempt from industry groups to prevent the state from enforcing the law.

The court rejected an industry challenge that sought to prevent the state from implementing protections enacted in the wake of the Trump administration's gutting of federal open-internet rules.

The California law has already had some tangible impact.

The ruling is a major victory for open-internet activists.

A new bill would make it harder for companies like Apple, Facebook and Google to protect people targeted with hate and disinformation online.

The court said that states could fill the gap created when the Trump administration ended federal Net Neutrality rules.

Tech companies like Facebook and Google have not invested enough in content moderation to catch and remove vile content, especially in Spanish and other non-English languages.

“We need to let these stellar public-interest advocates fill their roles now,” said Free Press Action Co-CEO Craig Aaron.